BERLIN (Sputnik) — The four chief diplomats are expected to gauge Ukrainian peace progress and steps taken to implement last year’s Minsk accords, which aim to stop fighting in Ukraine’s southeastern areas.
#Karasin: Kiev authorities are either unable or unwilling to move forward in the implementation of Minsk agreements https://t.co/8qi8Ozzr2F
— MFA Russia (@mfa_russia) 11 May 2016
The focus will be on Kiev’s amnesty promises, prisoner swaps, constitutional reforms, and local elections in the breakaway Donetsk and Lugansk provinces.
This will be the third such meeting since the start of the year. The previous negotiations were hosted by Paris on March 3, bringing them home almost two years after Russian, French German and Ukrainian leaders first discussed the crisis at celebrations marking the anniversary of WWII allied landings in northern France.
